Instructions for PACLIC 33 paper submission
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Abstract
This document contains the instructions for
preparing a manuscript for PACLIC 33. The
document itself conforms to its own specifications, and is therefore an example of what
your manuscript should look like. These instructions should be used for both papers submitted for review and for final versions of accepted papers. Authors are asked to conformto all the directions reported in this document.

1Credits

This document has been adapted from the instructions for the ACL-2012 proceedings, which in turnis based on earlier ACL proceedings, including
those for ACL-2008 by Johanna D. Moore, Simone Teufel, James Allan, and Sadaoki Furui,those for ACL-2005 by Hwee Tou Ng and Kemal
Oflazer, those for ACL-2002 by Eugene Charniak
and Dekang Lin, and earlier ACL and EACL formats. Those versions were written by several people, including John Chen, Henry S. Thompson andDonald Walker. Additional elements were takenfrom the formatting instructions of the International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

2Introduction

The following instructions are directed to authorsof papers submitted to PACLIC 33 or accepted for
publication in its proceedings. All authors are required to adhere to these specifications. Authors
are required to provide a Portable Document Format(PDF) version of their papers. The proceedings will
be printed on US-letter paper.

3General Instructions

Manuscripts must be in two-column format. An exception to the two-column format is the title, whichmust be centered at the top of the first page, andany full-width figures or tables (see the guidelines inSubsection 3.5). Type single-spaced. The authors’names, affiliations and addresses must be anonymous for the initial submission. Start all pages directly under the top margin. See the guide-lines later
regarding formatting the first page. Do not numberthe pages.
3.1

Electronically-available resources

PACLIC 33 provides this description in LATEX2e(paclic33.tex) and PDF format (paclic33.pdf), alongwith the LATEX2e style file used to format it(paclic33.sty) and an ACL bibliography style(acl.bst). These files are all available at https://jaslli.org/paclic33/. A Microsoft Wordtemplate file (paclic33.dot) is also available at thesame URL. We strongly recommend the use of thesestyle files. If you have an option, we recommendthat you use the LATEX2e version. If you will beusing the Microsoft Word template, we suggestthat you anonymize your source file so that thepdf produced does not retain your identity. Thiscan be done by removing any personal informationfrom your source document properties.
3.2

Format of Electronic Manuscript

For the production of the electronic manuscript
you must use Adobe’s Portable Document Format(PDF). This format can be generated from postscript
files: on Linux/Unix systems, you can use ps2pdf

for this purpose; under Microsoft Windows, you can
use Adobe’s Distiller, or if you have cygwin installed, you can use dvipdf or ps2pdf. Notethat some word processing programs generate PDF
which may not include all the necessary fonts (esp.
tree diagrams, symbols). When you print or create the PDF file, there is usually an option in yourprinter setup to include none, all or just non-standard
fonts. Please make sure that you select the option ofincluding ALL the fonts. Before sending it, test yourPDF by printing it from a computer different fromthe one where it was created. Moreover, some word
processor may generate very large postscript/PDF
files, where each page is rendered as an image. Such
images may reproduce poorly. In this case, try alternative ways to obtain the postscript and/or PDF.
One way on some systems is to install a driver for apostscript printer, send your document to the printerspecifying “Output to a file”, then convert the file toPDF.
Additionally, it is of utmost importance to specify the US-Letter format (8.5in × 11in) when formatting the paper. When working with dvips, forinstance, one should specify -t letter.
3.3

3.4

For reasons of uniformity, Adobe’s Times Roman
font should be used. In LATEX2e this is accomplishedby putting\usepackage{times}\usepackage{latexsym}
in the preamble. If Times Roman is unavailable,
use Computer Modern Roman (LATEX2e’s default).
Note that the latter is about 10% less dense than
Adobe’s Times Roman font.
Type of Text
paper title
author names
author affiliation
the word “Abstract”
section titles
document text
captions
abstract text
bibliographyfootnotes• Left and right margins: 1in• Top margin:1in• Bottom margin: 1in• Column width: 3.15in• Column height: 9in• Gap between columns: 0.2in
Papers should not be submitted on any other paper
size. If you cannot meet the above requirements
about the production of your electronic submission,please contact the publication chair as soon as possible.

Font Size
15 pt
12 pt
12 pt
12 pt
12 pt
11 pt
11 pt
10 pt
10 pt
9 pt

Styleboldbold
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Table 1: Font guide.

LayoutFormat manuscripts two columns to a page, in themanner these instructions are formatted. The exact
dimensions for a page on US-letter paper are:

Fonts

3.5

The First Page

Center the title, author’s name(s) and affiliation(s)across both columns. Do not use footnotes for affiliations. Do not include the paper ID number assigned
during the submission process. Use the two-columnformat only when you begin the abstract.
Title: Place the title centered at the top of thefirst page, in a 15 point bold font. (For a complete
guide to font sizes and styles, see Table 1.) Long title should be typed on two lines without a blank line
intervening. Approximately, put the title at 1in fromthe top of the page.
Abstract: Type the abstract at the beginning of
the first column. The width of the abstract text
should be smaller than the width of the columns forthe text in the body of the paper by about 0.25in oneach side. Center the word Abstract in a 12 point
bold font above the body of the abstract. The abstract should be a concise summary of the generalthesis and conclusions of the paper. It should be nolonger than 200 words. The abstract text should bein 10 point font.
Text: Begin typing the main body of the text
immediately after the abstract, observing the twocolumn format as shown in the present document.
Do not include page numbers.
Indent when starting a new paragraph. For reasons of uniformity, use Adobe’s Times Roman
fonts, with 11 points for text and subsection headings, 12 points for section headings and 15 points forthe title. If Times Roman is unavailable, use Computer Modern Roman (LATEX2e’s default; see section 3.2 above). Note that the latter is about 10%
less dense than Adobe’s Times Roman font.
3.6

Sections

Headings: Type and label section and subsection
headings in the style shown on the present document. Use numbered sections (Arabic numerals) inorder to facilitate cross references. Number subsections with the section number and the subsection
number separated by a dot, in Arabic numerals. Do
not number subsubsections.
Citations: Citations within the text appear inparentheses as (Gusfield, 1997) or, if the author’sname appears in the text itself, as Gusfield (1997).
Append lowercase letters to the year in cases of ambiguities. Treat double authors as in (Aho and Ullman, 1972), but write as in (Chandra et al., 1981)
when more than two authors are involved. Collapse
multiple citations as in (Gusfield, 1997; Aho andUllman, 1972). Also refrain from using full citations
as sentence constituents. We suggest that instead of“(Gusfield, 1997) showed that ...”
you use“Gusfield (1997) showed that ...”
If you are using the provided LATEX and BibTEX
style files, you can use the command \newcite to
get “author (year)” citations.
As reviewing will be double-blind, the submitted
version of the papers should not include the authors’names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-referencesthat reveal the author’s identity, e.g.,“We previously showed (Gusfield, 1997)...”

should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as“Gusfield (1997) previously showed ... ”
Please do not use anonymous citations and do notinclude acknowledgements when submitting yourpapers. Papers that do not conform to these requirements may be rejected without review.
References: Gather the full set of references
together under the heading References; place thesection before any Appendices, unless they contain references. Arrange the references alphabetically by first author, rather than by order of occurrence in the text. Provide as complete a citationas possible, using a consistent format, such as theone for Computational Linguistics or the one in thePublication Manual of the American PsychologicalAssociation (American Psychological Association,1983). Use of full names for authors rather than initials is preferred. A list of abbreviations for common computer science journals can be found in theACM Computing Reviews (Association for Computing Machinery, 1983).
The LATEX and BibTEX style files provided
roughly fit the American Psychological Association
format, allowing regular citations, short citations
and multiple citations as described above.
Appendices: Appendices, if any, directly follow
the text and the references (but see above). Letter
them in sequence and provide an informative title:
Appendix A. Title of Appendix.
Acknowledgment sections should go as a lastsection immediately before the references. Do notnumber the acknowledgement section.
3.7

Footnotes

Footnotes: Put footnotes at the bottom of the page.
They may be numbered or referred to by asterisks orother symbols.1 Footnotes should be separated fromthe text by a line.2 Footnotes should be in 9 point
font.
3.8

Graphics

Illustrations: Place figures, tables, and photographs
in the paper near where they are first discussed,
rather than at the end, if possible. Wide illustrations may run across both columns and should be1
2

This is how a footnote should appear.
Note the line separating the footnotes from the text.

placed at the top of a page. Color illustrations are
discouraged, unless you have verified that they will
be understandable when printed in black ink.
Captions: Provide a caption for every illustration;
number each one sequentially in the form: “Figure
1. Caption of the Figure.” “Table 1. Caption of theTable.” Type the captions of the figures and tables
below the body, using 11 point text.

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Translation of non-English Terms

It is also advised to supplement non-English characters and terms with appropriate transliterations
and/or translations since not all readers understandall such characters and terms.
Inline transliteration or translation can be represented in the order of: original-form transliteration“translation”.

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Length of Submission

PACLIC 33 submissions should be written in readable and plain English and may be up to eight (8)pages long, excluding references and appendices.
Papers that do not conform to the specified lengthand formatting requirements are subject to rejection.

Acknowledgments
Do not number the acknowledgment section. Do notinclude this section when submitting your paper forreview.

References
Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman. 1972. The Theory of Parsing, Translation and Compiling, volume 1.
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
American Psychological Association. 1983. Publications Manual. American Psychological Association,
Washington, DC.
Association for Computing Machinery. 1983. Computing Reviews, 24(11):503–512.
Ashok K. Chandra, Dexter C. Kozen, and Larry J. Stockmeyer. 1981. Alternation. Journal of the Association
for Computing Machinery, 28(1):114–133.
Dan Gusfield. 1997. Algorithms on Strings, Trees andSequences. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,UK.